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I'm quite sure you can speak several languages on a native level, and you don't have to learn all of them when you're a kid. My counterexample is https://en.wi
by ajuc 8y ago
I'm quite sure you can speak several languages on a native level, and you don't have to learn all of them when you're a kid.
My counterexample is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad
BTW I don't consider myself a fluent English speaker (mostly because of my awful pronunciation), but all of the problems with ABBA songs specified in the article were clear to me. I was just never bothered by it, because songs by native English speakers have weird or even ungrammatical lyrics, too.
- schoen 8y agoI wanted to mention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov (a Russian writer who became famous for his incredibly creative mastery of English), but Wikipedia says that he spoke English with his family as a child so maybe it can't be considered a foreign language for him.
- FabHK 8y agoNabokov's mastery of English is incredibly impressive. It pays to read the annotated versions of his classics, because it's nearly impossible to catch all the allusions and word plays he employs. I still wonder whether he could be caught out (as a non-native speaker) by something as simple as lullabies or so.
- poisonarena 8y agoI moved to latin america at age 30 and started learning spanish. Now fluent several years later.